Laughing Squid has a video of the Seemen's Helco performance on Saturday night. (Back in the old days, children, the Man burned on Sunday night.)

This was Louise's and my first year. I will tell you that the video is edited and makes the event look much more exciting than I remember. It was a long, dragged out affair, as I recall it, and without the exciting background music.

Seems to me like it would really suck that 11 years later, I still hadn't been able to improve upon the experience. Why do you guys continue to invest the time, energy, and expense into something that's just not as good (as you seem to be saying)?